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Happy New Year from Administrata!
Merry Christmas!- Shawn Gossman
- Post #16
- Forum: News & Announcements
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Chatosaur – Make new friends and explore services designed to elevate your forums, websites, and...
Nice forum :) I love the theme. Simple yet modern! Joined as Shawn.- Shawn Gossman
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- Forum: Offline Websites
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Middle Name
I like my middle name. Joseph Joseph had a coat of many colors. I love that story.- Shawn Gossman
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- Forum: Off-Topic Hangout
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AI For Creating Marketing Materials
I will use AI to help me with idea generation when I'm out of ideas. That doesn't happen too much. I use AI to build article outlines only to see if it suggests things I should consider adding to my own crafted outline. I use Grammarly AI for editing my written work. I only do it for minor...- Shawn Gossman
- Post #16
- Forum: Website Administration & Management
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Conflicts What are the key indicators that your community needs a change in direction?
I think when we get to a point where we want to give up because the forum isn't going the way we want it to go, that's the time when we need to look at our current strategies and adjust them as needed. Whether or not I want to monetize my forum or not, I always run it like a business in a few...- Shawn Gossman
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- Forum: Leadership & Community Management
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Retention Side-entertainment Value for a forum
Experiment, experiment, and experiment. Eventually, you'll find what works and what doesn't. I've been doing that with all my forums. Sometimes, my creativity isn't where I want it, and I'll load up a highly detailed question and feed it into my GPT to help give me inspiration. It's just...- Shawn Gossman
- Post #6
- Forum: Building & Growing Your Community
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Foundation Building Meaningful Communities: How to Connect and Grow Together
I do this at Copyblogger. I keep a Google Sheet of member names, locations, business niches, and interest keywords. When new members join, I scan my sheets for anything they can resonate with. If I find someone, I'll reply, connecting the two (or more) together for networking opportunities...- Shawn Gossman
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- Forum: Building & Growing Your Community
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New Forum Type Xenforo
This is a really cool-looking feature!- Shawn Gossman
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- Forum: Community Showcase
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Hello from California
Welcome to a great admin forum! :)- Shawn Gossman
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- Forum: Introduce Yourself
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Growth Individual member loyalty targeting
I think it's a good way to build true loyalty in the community. It's something more of us should practice. I mean, consider this: Most of us (admins of our forums) are logging in and replying to all or at least most posts to help engage them, right? What's going to hurt keeping a discussion...- Shawn Gossman
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- Forum: Building & Growing Your Community
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No, my resolutions are to get my projects launched. LOL.
No, my resolutions are to get my projects launched. LOL.- Shawn Gossman
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Superman coming in 2025
Looks cool. Fun fact: I live in the official hometown of Superman, Metropolis, Illinois. It's not a very big city, either, but we have the statue and the world-famous museum and the annual Superman Fest. I live out of town way out in the country but I have a Metro address.- Shawn Gossman
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- Forum: Off-Topic Hangout
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What's the first social media site you used?
I remember when Open Diary and Live Journal were around. Those were kinds of social media. Maybe Friendster, too? I may have just played with the ones listed above. MySpace was one I got into more. And My Year Book. MySpace was cool because you could add HTML and really customize things. But...- Shawn Gossman
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- Forum: Off-Topic Hangout
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XenForo XenForo 2.4 coming soon?
The editor looks interesting. Hope to see more features added, but wouldn't expect too many until XenForo 3.0 is released. Then, my expectations would be a little wider. X.x = minor features X.0 = major features At least that's what I've always thought about versioning.- Shawn Gossman
- Post #25
- Forum: Platform Empowerment & Customization
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Engagement How do you keep your community engaged during slow periods?
Great points @Cedric I've been asking myself this question for a while now concerning the community I get paid to manage on Copyblogger. A friend of mine who helped write a big paid newsletter now owned by HubSpot told me that when he did a paid community, he would make sure he wrote one...- Shawn Gossman
- Post #6
- Forum: Building & Growing Your Community
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I did it last year on two blogs for 110 days straight. I figure one blog would be easier lol.
I did it last year on two blogs for 110 days straight. I figure one blog would be easier lol.- Shawn Gossman
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I'm going to try blogging every day for a year starting on 1/1/25.
I'm going to try blogging every day for a year starting on 1/1/25.- Shawn Gossman
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What is the creepiest thing to have ever happened to you?
I can function on 6 hours of sleep, but staying up until 2? I can't remember the last time I did that it's been so long ago LOL- Shawn Gossman
- Post #16
- Forum: Off-Topic Hangout
